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25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories
Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia
US critic Edmund Wilson publishes Axel's Castle, a collection of essays about writers in the symbolist tradition
US film star James Cagney has a great success in the first of his many gangster roles, in The Public Enemy
On his first expedition to the Olduvai Gorge, Louis Leakey finds the oldest object now in the British Museum - the chopping tool from about 1.8 million years ago
Nine black teenagers, known as the Scottsboro Boys, are wrongly convicted of gang rape in a notorious US race-relations case
Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score
Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite
President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York
The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system
The US poet Ogden Nash has an immediate success with his first volume of poems, Hard Lines
The Star-Spangled Banner is made the official US national anthem
Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II
A dance company, brought together by Ninette de Valois as the Vic-Wells Ballet, begins performing at Sadler's Wells
Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels makes Der Führer a compulsory term for Hitler in the Nazi party
The Irish government classifies the Irish Republican Army as an illegal organization
Amid political crisis Labour-leader Ramsay MacDonald forms an all-party National Government in Britain
Charlie Chaplin makes City Lights, in which the tramp befriends and helps a blind flower girl
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues
The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria
16-year-old English footballer Stanley Matthews plays his first League game for Stoke City
In Pietr-Le-Letton, the first novel published under his own name, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon introduces Inspector Maigret
The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York
Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth
